Com Tam Kieu Giang

Horrible snotty rude waiters. Bland mediocre food. Only out of town FOBs that don’t know any better goes here. Filthy «restaurant»! I can hear the rats creeping in the ceiling at 2 pm. Why is the place still open???

The food was ok. Typical vietnamese food and service.

The mom and I were wandering Hong Kong mall when we were drawn in by our rumbling bellies and the crowd of people.
While their speciality seems to be in abundant rice combos, we both ordered the bo bun hue and iced Vietnamese coffee.
I’m glad we took a chance because our food really set a sparkle in my mother’s eyes. This place is LEGIT. I want to say this is the first time I’ve had actual pig blood cubes served! Not only that, but there were also meat balls and pork. They for sure did not skimp on the meat. The noodles were a great size and the perfect amount of springy. Each bowl came with fermented shrimp sauce to enhance the soup and I was quite pleased to see purple cabbage amongst the veggies. The spicy sauce they served at each the table built a good level of heat over time. If I really had to nitpick though, it would be that the soup itself was light and not as hearty as other places’s. If I had to guess, they probably make it from prepackaged base.
The iced coffee was strong and good. It was refreshing to see it served classic drip and saucer instead of premixed. Something about pouring it myself makes me happy.
Their service is lackluster and I do question the cleanliness of the tables, but that’s nothing new given it’s Chinatown. I’d definitely visit again.

Food is ehhh and the service is terrible. They just act like you are bothering them when you enter the restaurant. So sad…

I’ve never been so overwhelmed with so many different rice choice combinations in my life! They have over 50 different options, but the first 4 are their most popular since it pretty much consists of everything. Flavor was okay and the service was a little slow. It’s cash only and left pretty full. The only reason I gave this place 3 stars was because I felt this place was a little dirty, and my 2 co-​workers claimed to feel sick after eating here.

Service sucked, how are you gonna sit us down and expect us to know what to order within 10 seconds. Completely rude when we told her we needed more time she stomp away and didn’t come back until I called another server over. Food was okay not the best.

If you want to eat crappy food, receive rude service and pay a premium price, this place is for you. Dirty dirty dirty! Avoid!

I was on a lunch break and met up with some family to get a bite inside Hong Kong Market. Hands down, rice dishes were delicious. I wasn’t expecting much when I first walked in, but it brought my appetite a satisfying sensation.
To begin my story, we first were looking for Phở Dung, but their lights were off, chairs were put up on top of the table, no one was there, and obviously the open sign was shut off. So we walked around to the other side of the market and found Com Tam Kieu Giang. It was my first time visiting this place so I had my doubts up and wasn’t expecting to receive much out of a meal here. I browsed the menu for a couple of minutes and noticed they have a lot of items and different combinations listed. Lots of rice dishes for sure.
I went ahead and ordered my usual grilled pork and chicken, egg cake (most restaurants don’t carry this anymore), veggies, and crushed steamed rice. It also came with a bowl of broth soup. I enjoyed eating all of it. It’s really filling and the price was just right. Not expensive at all and you can try to finish all of the food on this plate. Be advised, your stomach will definitely grow by the end of this meal.
Service was above average and the restaurant was definitely busy during this lunch hour. Not too crowded where you couldn’t move around though. They have lots of seating room so bring in the crowd if you’d like.
This spot is actually well known. I spoke of it to some of my friends and they said their folks eat here every now and then.

NEVER AGAIN!
I picked up some fried rice here for the office. As I sat next to one of the girls eating, a ROACH came running out of the rice!!! It wasn’t even dead and it didn’t even run out until she had already taken a couple bites! I feel so disgusted. I guess the roach was squished and piled on by the rice. This place is horrible

Love this place. Of all the places we take visitors to in Houston, this is one place that never disappoints. This is also one of the few places that I don’t have to ask my son to eat his food, he wipes his plate clean every time we come here.
Don’t come here for the service because it’s not the best. They want you to order quickly and if you need something, you’re better off going to find someone to ask rather than wait. That said, com tam is the best around town or anywhere I’ve eaten com tam.
I always get the chargrilled pork with chargrilled chicken and mix it up between a fried egg or egg quiche.
My wife always gets the chargrilled korean style beef and sometimes also adds chargrilled beef.
We’ve always paid in cash as well since that’s how they have functioned for so long so we are used to bringing cash when coming here. You don’t even need to bring much cash since most plates are around $ 7 or $ 8!
They close early on week days unless something has changed. I’ve walked in there before roughly around 6:30 and they were getting ready to close up. Weekends can be rather busy here and there’s not a formal waiting list, you just stand at the door and wait to be seated.

I’ve been there for few times. The «Com Tam» is tasty but their service was so bad. The young man cashier looks like uneducated. At least he would say «thank you» when customer left .He even didn’t look at you when he gave back your chance. And the waitress always looks so rude. She is not happy when you ask something. They did not care about customer at alI. i won’t and never come back any more.

The best com tam in Houston hands down. The chicken is AMAZING. And the other items that you can order is just mouth watering. I could eat here once a week.

This is my go-​to place whenever I’m craving broken rice (Com Tam) dishes in Houston. Because this is more of a local, casual restaurant, I won’t have a rating score for each category that I generally do. Instead, I’ll list the pros/​cons about this place. Overall you would come here for the food only, not for the atmosphere or customer service. Note, you generally want to already know what you are going to order when you sit down. If you need time to decide, don’t be surprised if they check on you every 30 secs — 1 min to ask if you’re ready.
Pros:
This place is very fast in serving your food. After you order, you get your food within 5 minutes. For the price of the dish, you get a generous portion of food. I have only ordered the Com Tam dishes since it seems to be the specialty of the restaurant. I always get the Com Tam Bi Cha Thit Nuong Tau Huu Ky. The rice is cooked well. All the different meats are always on par with what I expect. The meal hits the spot whenever I have cravings for home cooked Vietnamese food.
Cons:
Personally, I would like the Thit Nuong (Grilled Pork) to be marinated and grilled longer. Also, I’ve always paid in cash since before they only accepted cash. Seeing how other reviews mention there’s a 50 cent transaction fee for cards, they may have started accepting cards then.

Visited over the weekend for a business lunch because a friend said she heard good things about this place.
The friend noticed that many reviews and tips said they were cash only, so she called ahead to confirm it. The woman who picked up the phone said they accepted credit cards and not to worry.
The menu was varied with plenty of staples that I enjoyed from other establishments and the service was fairly good. When the food arrived we were all rather disappointed to see that the Hainan Chicken plate only had wing joints and rib cages and very little meat. The other dishes were about a 3 out of 5. The big problem came when I received the check.
The waitress took my Visa card without any issues and said she would be right back. After about 5 minutes, she came back and asked me if I had another card because the owner says they didn’t accept «credit cards» from businesses. I was perplexed. I went up to the counter and asked to speak with the owner. She kept pointing at my card’s imprint that showed my business name AND my name. She asked me for another card, so I gave her my personal MasterCard. Again, she had an issue. She said they did not take MasterCard and that I should walk across the street to a Chase bank to get cash. I was pretty mad now.
I had and asked her again why they told us over the phone that they accepted credit cards and then played games and acted ignorant when it came time to pay. She then said that their credit card machine was down and was embarrassed. I called BS on that! I looked behind the counter and she didn’t even have a machine! I paid with what cash we had and asked for my receipt. She only hit the «No Sale» button to open the register for my change so she didin’t have a receipt to give me. She told me to keep the table receipt (itemized with all the food) and did not reflect my payment or change given as my receipt. We tipped the waitress 20% because it was not her fault and we clearly could see she was embarrassed at the scene the owner caused.
I am NOT coming back again and I encourage everyone who reads this post to beware of this place because of their deceitful practices and of NOT properly recording their sales to cheat the tax paying business owners who actually ring up their sales and pay their taxes. This will no doubt catch up with them…

This is my first comment in Unilocal .
This restaurant is not clean, spoon is so gross, toilet is so stinky. The young lady (waitress) is so rude. Maybe no education, screaming and sit around with another waitress talk sth bad about guest (wth). Can’t use card if you have no cash, they take 0.50 $fee .
F* service, restaurant not clean, food not delicious.

If you like to get the Vietnamese crushed rice topped with different combination of sides, go here. This place has every options you can think of and you can add whatever you want — although the taste is just OK for me, I can find better somewhere else in Houston with less options of sides. Careful, it can get relatively expensive (the more you add and depending on the kind of sides, you have to pay extra). Fast service and always packed, be ready to share a table with strangers since the place isn’t very big. I also think this place doesn’t open till 7 or 8 PM, so come early.

I would give it a solid 7, but ³⁄₅.
I don’t understand why this place is more on a pricier side considering how run down this place looks.like.I would never come back. The food is not bad though. I don’t care too much for the service, but the lady did look mean as hell.
That is all

We had an early lunch here today and were very pleased. The food is tasty, the service was lightening fast and the prices were quite reasonable ($ 18 lunch for two). The menu is extensive and was a bit overwhelming at first, but there are helpful (and accurate) pictures so I felt fairly confident in my order. I decided upon C26 — shredded pork, baked egg and shrimp paste and I added charbroiled shrimp. My boyfriend had C36 — charbroiled meat ball, shredded pork, baked egg and Korean BBQ beef, but he substituted charbroiled shrimp for the meat ball. The food was served within minutes of our order.
Each plate consisted of a generous portion of steamed, broken rice topped with piles of our choices, garnished with sliced, green onions and accompanied by lettuce, tomato slices, and a delicious pickled (?) cabbage and carrot mixture. A bowl of broth and a small bowl of fish sauce were served on the side. The food was flavorful, but I was a little surprised that the shrimp and the shredded pork were served room temperature. They were still tasty, but I guess I expected everything to be piping hot. The baked egg was actually a flavorful mixture of egg, thin rice noodles, mushrooms (?) and chopped pork (?). The shrimp paste was a chopped shrimp mixture molded around a slice of sugarcane. The shredded pork was actually very thin matchstick pieces of pork mixed with rice noodles and was quite nice. However, my favorite of all the selections was the yummy BBQ beef. I had hot tea with my meal and my boyfriend had the lemonade which was delightfully fresh-​squeezed and just perfect.
We really enjoyed being able to try a variety of dishes. We will definitely be back and look forward to trying even more of their menu!!! I highly recommend this place, but suggest that you come early because it gets really crowded at lunch!!!

First, the staff is not friendly our waitress just seemed extremely annoyed and unhappy. She was flat out rude.
Second, the restaurant itself has really weird décor, with wall paper peeling off the walls, and a bunch of junky decorations piling up on and behind the counter; I don’t get the vibe of a clean kept restaurant.
Third, the tables are gross and sticky and even when they wiped it down it smelled even worse, like a combination of fish sauce and dirty dish towel. When the rag you’re using makes the tables dirtier it’s time to change them out.
Finally, the food here sucks. I had com tam bi thit nuong which is the broken rice with shredded pork and grilled pork and I added a fried egg. Over all the food wasn’t that great everything was really dry they can’t even fry an egg correctly.
I will go out of my way to make sure I never return again.

Can I get a com com?
It’s a great find inside Hong Kong Market.
It’s not very big but seats quite a lot of people with long tables running from front to back so don’t be surprised if you end up sitting next to people you don’t know. (Reminds me of a lot of phở style restaurants in San Francisco)
My cousin suggested this spot and it was a fantastic idea. We ordered the spring rolls and the #30 (grilled pork, egg cake, shredded pork, and chinese sausage with rice). It was a lot of food. The spring rolls are tightly wrapped with shrimp, lettuce, vermicelli, cilantro, and fried wonton (what my cousin said it was)). The peanut sauce was ok, tastes a bit different than what I’m use too — we couldn’t put our finger on what it was but it was different)
The rice plate was plentiful and everything tasted good. They have a large selection of goods from soups to rice plates to vermicelli bowls.
The staff is pretty attentive and the prices are reasonable. All the above with two ice teas was only $ 22. WIN!
Oh, and this is a CASH ONLY spot!